Random post – just saw this whilst I was doing some research for an article and thought that it was quite a nice analogy – yet another nugget to add to the definitions of IBL!
 

This is an analogy that a student used when describing why they thought trying to UNDERSTAND your knowledge was better than just learning stuff parrot-fashion.
 

“If you have a glass marble, one of those marbles with a little coloured ball in the middle, you can get a description of it from one angle and you think you’ve understood, but if someone turns the marble a little, you can’t really explain any more because you don’t have the same start…because to really have understood something, you have to be able to see the marble from every angle, you have to see in 3D.”
 

Anyways, back to reading about student engagement!
 

Tim

 Heres a picture of some marbles, just to show that I haven’t yet lost mine. (o what a comic genius i am. uhem…)
 

Fyrenius, A et al (2007) “Student approaches to achieving understanding” in Studies in Higher Education, 32/2

Hi, I’m Sarah, the new student ambassador for Human Communication Sciences. I’m still finding my feet so if I’m posting in the wrong place, i’m sorry! Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been meeting people in CILASS and in my home department to find out what’s going on at the moment.

I met with my champion and we discussed the things going on in HCS, which are as follows:

*Following student feedback, new tasks have been designed for the freshers in Intro Week. These tasks are more interactive than last year’s and look to give new students an insight into some different areas that will covered in their first year.

*HCS are currently in talks with CILASS vis-a-vis our department’s exciting new plans for how to take inquiry-based learning forward for current and future students.

*There has been quite a bit of interest in how CILASS has been approached within the department, and at the University, and there are currently talks of a staff-student collaboration for a chapter in an upcoming book about staff-student partnerships in Learning and Teaching. If anyone is interested, contact your student ambassador or champion.